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Brooklyn transplants' Olathe home is an architectural marvel of concrete and steel

Several years ago, the pair had ideas about moving to a place with +a+ slower pace time than busy Brooklyn, where they worked both together and separately on a variety of high-profile design projects, several of which were featured in the Wall Street ...

www.kansascity.comJanuary 24, 2015

Purchasing some mementos of the past

1, a Pearl Beer Octagon Neon Clock that drew $1,300 through No. 500, a Wooden Airplane Propeller, the bidding action was furious, with most sale prices easily eclipsing the estimates in the auctioneer's catalogue. It was the same with the rock and roll ...

But instead of taking the air completely out of it and running the shot clock to zero, Purdue missed a long shot and committed a turnover that allowed the Jayhawks to score the game's final six points. "That game really sits with me," Painter said ...

sports.yahoo.comFebruary 3, 2015

I Watched A Journeyman Fighter Get His Ass Beat In A Cage In St. Louis

Instead we were led to a locker room with a television that took up half the wall, the screen filled with the still-empty octagon, and a dozen lockers labeled with the fighters' names. The lockers, upon further inspection, each It was six o'clock ...

deadspin.comOctober 31, 2014

Full of Character for a Lot Less Rent in Bayonne, NJ

They soon upgraded to a $3,550 two-bedroom at the Octagon, with those bins lining a wall in the second bedroom. The building, once a Maidenform factory, had just been converted into 85 loftlike rental units, retaining much of the original wood and ...

Outside of their time inside the Octagon and the pre and post-fight interviews that come out during fight week, very few fighters have a platform to show who they really are as individuals and that's what makes this road trip project unique. Over the ...

bleacherreport.comOctober 5, 2014

All 274 gifts given to Barack Obama between 2009 and 2012, ranked

You have to feel sort of bad for some of the countries, clearly giving things that they hoped would end up as part of White House tours but instead were likely relegated to wooden crates in warehouses. To cut to the chase: Here are the .. 20 ...

www.washingtonpost.comAugust 4, 2014

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After showing at a couple of galleries last month, one critique I heard was that my works were too small to grab attention in a gallery setting. So now I'm trying some larger works. I've reinforced both of those things, but I'm also sitting here with them on the wall to see if they're going to fall down.

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Where is it. Windsor Castle is in Windsor in Berkshire. Windsor Castle dates from the time of William the Conqueror who built a defensive motte and bailey castle on the site around 1080. Henry I started to use it as a royal residence from around 1100, attracted by the royal hunting forest in what is... Henry II largely rebuilt the castle in stone in the 1170s. Edward III added the Norman Gate and transformed the castle into a Gothic palace. He established the Order of the Garter in 1348 and built St George’s Hall. In 1475, Edward IV started the building of St George’s Chapel and Henry VIII added the gate that carries his name in 1511. Charles II’s Baroque palace. After the Restoration, Charles II revived the castle’s splendour in the Baroque style using the skills of a master woodcarver, Grinling Gibbons, to embellish his oak-panelled rooms and the Italian artist Antonio Verrio to paint the ceilings. George III’s Gothic castle. The early Hanoverian monarchs had a preference for Hampton Court, but George III disliked it and chose to reside at Windsor Castle instead. In 1790, George III took over the management of Windsor Great Park, laying out two large farms and purchasing the lease of Frogmore House for Queen Charlotte.